San Francisco

That's actually changing (finally), so you'll be able to take bike any time (common sense required though!).

As for Oakland better than SF... dunno I always find lots of things to do in SF without having to head to Oakland. That said, I do spend my weekends else where (Marin, or a beach flying kites)

Actually, Bart is experimenting with relaxed restrictions. Nothing is changing, yet.

http://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2013/news20130523a.aspx

And Kirth, don't forget that thanks to the tech companies not only will Market look nicer (whiter? more like an Ikea styled condo?) but it will also displace a particular community that can no longer afford to live there and are too gritty for the rest of SF to accept them. So they'll be shipped out, sometimes literally, with one way bus tickets. I assure you, rents in the tenderloin are not even 1/10 of what they were in the 50s. Please, please, whatever you do, stay where your visions of nicer, safer streets via unbridled tech capitalism are appreciated.

A lot of people who aren't flying kites on the beaches of Marin are working to protect the disenfranchised people you're so quick to write off.

Any chance you're related to edscooble?